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SIDNEY M. HOSIER, treasurer of Chautauqua county and a wounded veteran of the late civil war, is a son of Isaac and Arvilla (Rogers) Hosier, and was born near Blocksville, in the town of Harmony, Chautauqua county, New York, October 21, 1843. His maternal grandfather, Elisha Rogers, moved to near Garrett, De Kalb county, Ind., where he followed farming until his death. He married and had four children, one son and three daughters: Harris, who is engaged in farming near Garrett; Arvilla, Sophia and Orrilla. Isaac Hosier (father) was born October 13, 1810, and died at Boomertown, this county, April, 1884, aged seventy-four years and six months. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, a republican in politics and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was Arvilla Rogers, daughter of Elisha Rogers, and to their union were born three sons and two daughters: Effie, who died in infancy; Elisha, who was one of the first of New York’s sons to respond to President Lincoln’s call for troops in 1801, enlisted in Co. B, 72nd regiment New York Vols., and was killed in the early part of the Peninsular campaign, at the battle of Williamsburg; Sidney M.; Walter E., engaged in farming in the town of Portland; and Ada A., wife of M. D. Carpenter, of Boomertown.

Sidney M. Hosier passed his boyhood days in his native village and received a good common school education. He then, in order to more fully fit himself for some business pursuit in life, went to Buffalo and entered Bryant and Stratton’s Commercial and Business college, of that city. He learned telegraphy and book-keeping and devoted some time to penmanship.

In the second year of the late war he enlisted (August 2nd, 1862) in Co. D, 112th regiment, N. Y. Infantry, and served in the many severe marches and numerous hard battles of the Army of the Potomac until the siege of Petersburg, where on the 29th of September, 1864, he lost his right arm by a gun-shot wound. He was sent to Hampton Roads hospital, where he remained for some time, and then transferred to New York Central Park hospital and from there to Buffalo High Street hospital, and was honorably discharged from the United States service at Buffalo, N. Y., on the eighth day of July, 1865. He then returned home and became a telegraph operator at Randolph, on the Atlantic and Great Western railroad, where he remained for about six months, and then resigned to have an operation performed on his shoulder to remove loose bones. After leaving the service of that railway company he was employed on several other railroads until about 1872, when he was appointed agent and telegraph operator at Clymer station, on the Western New York & Pennsylvania railroad, which position he held until the spring of 1886, when he resigned on account of health. In the fall of 1887 he was elected treasurer of Chautauqua county for a term of three years, which expired December 31st, 1890. The only office previous to this which he ever held was that of collector of the town of Harmony, for the year 1868.

June 20, 1871, he married Anise E. Gilmore, daughter of James Gilmore, of Portage county, Ohio.

Sidney M. Hosier is a member of Mayville Lodge, No. 284, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Mayville; Chautauqua Lodge, No. 3, Ancient Order of United Workmen, at Westfield, and William Sackett Post, No. 324, Grand Army of the Republic, of Westfield. He is a republican from principle and has always given a full and cordial support to his party. As a business man he has financial ability and many years of commercial experience. As treasurer of this county he has discharged the duties of his office with fidelity and intelligence, and as a soldier his military record is one of faithful and willing service.